Airmiles Armchair Chatter

kerreyn · Mar 26, 2017

mkmommy said:
We used our 1 AM Cineplex voucher for Beauty and the Beast on Friday, what a great movie, my 16 year old is a huge Belle fan and thought Emma Watson was perfect. I had forgotten how much I loved the original movie.

Thinking of redeeming points for the Universal Tickets, (I am sure the answer is hear but I can't find it and did try to search)is there an expiry dates on the tickets? Would be using them next March Break.

We saw Beauty and the Beast last weekend and loved it too!

The isn't an expiry on the Universal passes. We'll be in Orlando in Feb. 2018, so I've taken advantage of the Canadian sale for WDW, I've bought two Universal passes and waiting to buy another until after the new tiered pricing rolls out on April 3.

mkmommy · Mar 26, 2017

kerreyn said:
We saw Beauty and the Beast last weekend and loved it too!

The isn't an expiry on the Universal passes. We'll be in Orlando in Feb. 2018, so I've taken advantage of the Canadian sale for WDW, I've bought two Universal passes and waiting to buy another until after the new tiered pricing rolls out on April 3.

What is the tiered pricing, and will the amount of AM needed go up after April 3?

kerreyn · Mar 26, 2017

mkmommy said:
What is the tiered pricing, and will the amount of AM needed go up after April 3?

As of April 3 (I believe), Airmiles members with blue cards pay face value of a reward item, gold members get 10% off, and onyx get 20% off. So instead of paying 2425 airmiles for a two day park to park Universal pass, I'll pay 1940, provided the price doesn't go up with the new structure roll out.

mkmommy · Mar 26, 2017

kerreyn said:
As of April 3 (I believe), Airmiles members with blue cards pay face value of a reward item, gold members get 10% off, and onyx get 20% off. So instead of paying 2425 airmiles for a two day park to park Universal pass, I'll pay 1940, provided the price doesn't go up with the new structure roll out.

That is good to know. Thank you.

alohamom · Mar 26, 2017

kerreyn said:
As of April 3 (I believe), Airmiles members with blue cards pay face value of a reward item, gold members get 10% off, and onyx get 20% off. So instead of paying 2425 airmiles for a two day park to park Universal pass, I'll pay 1940, provided the price doesn't go up with the new structure roll out.

Ohhhh I never thought about the gold and onyx discounts applying to tickets. Fingers crossed that this is indeed the case. I thought it was just merchandise style rewards

DizzyDis · Mar 26, 2017

alohamom said:
Ohhhh I never thought about the gold and onyx discounts applying to tickets. Fingers crossed that this is indeed the case. I thought it was just merchandise style rewards

I have been wondering that and particularly wondering what it could mean for the Canada discounted WDW tickets. My and my parents' accounts are Onyx and Gold respectively, but I am currently working on their total for another ticket since I completely depleted mine (Onyx). Now I am wondering if I should switch to pumping mine up if it may require fewer miles for an Onyx account and theirs won't likely hit Onyx before the end of May... Any thoughts or suggestions?

Donald - my hero · Mar 26, 2017

kerreyn said:
As of April 3 (I believe), Airmiles members with blue cards pay face value of a reward item, gold members get 10% off, and onyx get 20% off. So instead of paying 2425 airmiles for a two day park to park Universal pass, I'll pay 1940, provided the price doesn't go up with the new structure roll out.

alohamom said:
Ohhhh I never thought about the gold and onyx discounts applying to tickets. Fingers crossed that this is indeed the case. I thought it was just merchandise style rewards

DizzyDis said:
I have been wondering that and particularly wondering what it could mean for the Canada discounted WDW tickets. My and my parents' accounts are Onyx and Gold respectively, but I am currently working on their total for another ticket since I completely depleted mine (Onyx). Now I am wondering if I should switch to pumping mine up if it may require fewer miles for an Onyx account and theirs won't likely hit Onyx before the end of May... Any thoughts or suggestions?

I haven't let my hopes getup too high on the "promised" discounts for us more (what was the phrase? more engaged?) gold and/or Onyx level members because at times i have tried to book the flights they have said I can get for fewer miles and they have NEVER been included. To prove my point look closely at the ever-important highlighted words in this chart

So yeah, you can lop off 5 AM and it's falling under the umbrella of UP TO. However, it does say ALL merchandise so the tickets WILL be included (or there will be heck to pay!!)

Donald - my hero · Mar 26, 2017

Heads up on this week's Rexall coupon, it will SUCK it if is the same as my Load and Go offer (which it has been every other week) Spend $80.00 get 100 AM ... seriously??? not happening in this household.

My Onyx miles still do NOT reflect the STB miles BUT we have already hit 3162 AM this year and once those blasted extra are posted that brings us to 5062 AM and since we tend to average around 1,000 / month we'll make it no problem again

marcyleecorgan · Mar 26, 2017

ottawamom said:
From what I've read I don't think using your AM on a vacation package are the best use of your miles. They seem to charge a premium for those redemptions. I think you will get better value purchasing tickets through AM and also flights through AM if you have enough. Book your hotel separately with a dining plan (ticketless package) if you want to go that route and you're all set.

I second this. I didn't know any better when I first started planning our family's 1st trip, thought the AM would actually give us a discount on a Magic Your Way vacation, as that was how it was presented! Instead they emptied our points balance with some kind of Package Offer that required a number of prequisites (like trying to force us to include Airfare - sorry, we are using our Avion points for travel). Once we argued for ten minutes that we did not need Airfare from their Preferred Carrier, the Package to book the tickets and the hotel room became 20% more expensive in points.

In the end, I think my DH worked the math out to be that we actually only saved $800 using the AM. Had we just paid rack rate and used the Avion points for Airfare, we could have chosen our room type (only standard view came with this travel agent), added Memory Maker remotely (missed a parade AND temporarily lost the 3 disabled members in our party meeting us AT the parade, while my DH had to run into the shop and deal with the upgrade) and NOT have been forced to wait 2 weeks to watch all our preferred options sell out on the Disney website! Plus the chaos that ensued when I finally got access to a MDE account to coordinate the ADR dining and FastPass + rides for 8 people!!! with only 19 days until we flew to Orlando!

Now we know, use the AM to buy the discounted tickets, and to separately book the hotel and dining plan!

ttaylorcan · Mar 26, 2017

Donald - my hero said:
Heads up on this week's Rexall coupon, it will SUCK it if is the same as my Load and Go offer (which it has been every other week) Spend $80.00 get 100 AM ... seriously??? not happening in this household.

My Onyx miles still do NOT reflect the STB miles BUT we have already hit 3162 AM this year and once those blasted extra are posted that brings us to 5062 AM and since we tend to average around 1,000 / month we'll make it no problem again

My Load and Go are both 80am wus $50 this week

ottawamom · Mar 26, 2017

Donald - my hero said:
Heads up on this week's Rexall coupon, it will SUCK it if is the same as my Load and Go offer (which it has been every other week) Spend $80.00 get 100 AM ... seriously??? not happening in this household.

My Onyx miles still do NOT reflect the STB miles BUT we have already hit 3162 AM this year and once those blasted extra are posted that brings us to 5062 AM and since we tend to average around 1,000 / month we'll make it no problem again

My load and go is a Spend $50 get 80AM. Are they playing games with us again? :rolleyes2

My STB aren't included in my ONYX count for the year either. I'll call and inquire again tomorrow. Will let everyone know the exciting news!

Donald - my hero · Mar 26, 2017

Me thinks this is a case of I've pushed my limit at Rexall a few too many times and they are doing their best to cut me off at the pass?? Here's my offer

and here's last week's shopping proceeds .... think they've had it with me

ottawamom · Mar 26, 2017

I hear you. I'm going to cut back to just double dipping my coupons for a couple of weeks, then I'll go back and try triple dipping for a while again.

ttaylorcan · Mar 26, 2017

Donald - my hero said:
I haven't let my hopes getup too high on the "promised" discounts for us more (what was the phrase? more engaged?) gold and/or Onyx level members because at times i have tried to book the flights they have said I can get for fewer miles and they have NEVER been included. To prove my point look closely at the ever-important highlighted words in this chart
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So yeah, you can lop off 5 AM and it's falling under the umbrella of UP TO. However, it does say ALL merchandise so the tickets WILL be included (or there will be heck to pay!!)

The way I interpreted it is that only merchandise rewards will be discounted April 3. There appears to be three categories under Dream Rewards; 1. Merchandise, 2. Travel and 3. Events and Attractions. I suspect the discount will only be the one category, tickets are under Events and Attractions.

ttaylorcan · Mar 26, 2017

Donald - my hero said:
Me thinks this is a case of I've pushed my limit at Rexall a few too many times and they are doing their best to cut me off at the pass?? Here's my offer
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and here's last week's shopping proceeds .... think they've had it with me
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I found with the Shoppers Optimum and Sobeys airmiles, the more I shopped there and met the minimum spend limits, the higher the the spend requirement would be in the next offer. My Sobeys spend limit is now consistently 30am wus $110, husband's was always 20am wus $55 until I got a hold of his card, now he is at 20am wus $60.

With Shoppers I found that if I went back to small shops I would get smaller points offers again, I've tried doing the same to bring down the Sobeys airmiles offers but so far no success. Thought I'd mention it in case Rexall sends you another high spend one.

hdrolfe · Mar 26, 2017

ttaylorcan said:
I found with the Shoppers Optimum and Sobeys airmiles, the more I shopped there and met the minimum spend limits, the higher the the spend requirement would be in the next offer. My Sobeys spend limit is now consistently 30am wus $110, husband's was always 20am wus $55 until I got a hold of his card, now he is at 20am wus $60.

With Shoppers I found that if I went back to small shops I would get smaller points offers again, I've tried doing the same to bring down the Sobeys airmiles offers but so far no success. Thought I'd mention it in case Rexall sends you another high spend one.

Since my Rexall offer is spend $10 get 20 AM I'd go with this lol. I rarely shop there, maybe once a month? It is too out of my usual travel paths.

I did ok at Sobeys this week, I think I spent $105 and got 119 AM, but it was all stuff we needed, except I took my son and somehow ended up with fancy sugar cookies, pogos, giant muffins... I guess maybe we got a bunch of extra stuff?

ttaylorcan · Mar 26, 2017

momof2gr8kids said:
So the Shell 7X points is up on the AM site for convenience store purchases - which include gift cards. So if you're planning on shopping at Safeway or Sobeys or shoppers or lcbo or best buy, home depot, la senza, cineplex, etc. etc. etc. get the gc's there first for extra points. (I just listed a few of the ones I've bought in the past from our Shell - they have a whole slew of them.) I copied and pasted from the AM site below. Looks like it's for Ontario and West...sorry east coast. Maybe you got something else?

Offer valid from March 27 to June 4, 2017 at participating Shell locations in ON, MB, SK, AB, BC and NT. Get 7x the AIR MILES Reward Miles on your Convenience Retail purchases. No fuel purchase required. Bonus Offer applies to the base Mile offer of 1 Mile for each $10 of in-store purchase (maximum $100) per transaction only. A valid AIR MILES Card must be presented at time of purchase. Maximum of 5 transactions per day. No coupon required. In-store purchase excludes Shell Gift Cards, tobacco products and Service Bay repairs. Shell reserves the right without advance notice to change or discontinue this promotion at any time. Please allow up to 6 weeks post promotion for the Bonus Miles to be awarded to your Collector Account.

Oh thank you for posting this, I'll definitely give it a try. Looks like $100 giftcard would be 70 airmiles???

Donald - my hero · Mar 26, 2017

momof2gr8kids said:
So the Shell 7X points is up on the AM site for convenience store purchases - which include gift cards. So if you're planning on shopping at Safeway or Sobeys or shoppers or lcbo or best buy, home depot, la senza, cineplex, etc. etc. etc. get the gc's there first for extra points. (I just listed a few of the ones I've bought in the past from our Shell - they have a whole slew of them.) I copied and pasted from the AM site below. Looks like it's for Ontario and West...sorry east coast. Maybe you got something else?

Offer valid from March 27 to June 4, 2017 at participating Shell locations in ON, MB, SK, AB, BC and NT. Get 7x the AIR MILES Reward Miles on your Convenience Retail purchases. No fuel purchase required. Bonus Offer applies to the base Mile offer of 1 Mile for each $10 of in-store purchase (maximum $100) per transaction only. A valid AIR MILES Card must be presented at time of purchase. Maximum of 5 transactions per day. No coupon required. In-store purchase excludes Shell Gift Cards, tobacco products and Service Bay repairs. Shell reserves the right without advance notice to change or discontinue this promotion at any time. Please allow up to 6 weeks post promotion for the Bonus Miles to be awarded to your Collector Account.

ttaylorcan said:
Oh thank you for posting this, I'll definitely give it a try. Looks like $100 giftcard would be 70 airmiles???

I would not plan on using cash miles for Gift Cards anymore. After the PC points ran into the same issues they stopped allowing the purchase of Giftcards with points --- still have signs up in our Zehrs saying you can't redeem for giftcards. I would be extremely surprised if they continue to allow the giftcards to be an option at Shell once this whole Airmiles Cash fascicle gets straightened out.

ttaylorcan · Mar 26, 2017

Donald - my hero said:
I would not plan on using cash miles for Gift Cards anymore. After the PC points ran into the same issues they stopped allowing the purchase of Giftcards with points --- still have signs up in our Zehrs saying you can't redeem for giftcards. I would be extremely surprised if they continue to allow the giftcards to be an option at Shell once this whole Airmiles Cash fascicle gets straightened out.

Thanks Donald - my hero, very good point. I'll be happy to get airmiles for purchasing Sobeys gift cards, I've been out for so long.

Mickey&JoshNut · Mar 27, 2017

Currently at WDW and thought I would provide our experience for adding PH to our Air Miles 7 day one park tickets. We added the PH option at Guest relations in Disney Springs last night...it was $55.12 for each adult ticket. We decided to add it as I thought it was only costing us $55.12 each to see the parks for 7 days. Also, we are staying on property (ASMu) and I was able to use my Magic band to pay for the PH.

While it was easy to add the PH option, the wait time at Guest relations was insane and their new system of taking names and letting you sit until it is time is ridiculous. We were told when we went to upgrade that it would be about a 20 minute wait and we accepted that and decided to wait. We saw CM standing around the entire time we were there when they could have been serving guests. I asked a manager CM why they thought this was a better system and he said guests like being addressed by name and being able to sit and check messages while waiting. I said the whole take a number system would also work instead of having CM walking around looking for the guest they are supposed to be serving...(I think the CM at the door either takes your picture or describes you), I also said that it would let guests know how many people were ahead of them. We were finally served after about 40 minutes...if they had told us it would be so long, we probably would have just done the redemption and upgrade at Epcot guest relations today.

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